Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson used at 4-2-4 formation in its first two games, but it may switch to a 4-3-3 against Columbia, primarily to contain the Lion's top scoring threat, former Nigerian Olympian Emmanuel Osode...
...burnish her image to a high gloss. For Eleanor, this is the seventh campaign and 16th year in the field. For whatever advantage Pat has in experience, Eleanor can claim compensating interest. Of the two, Eleanor was far more exposed to politics in her youth. Otherwise, their backgrounds contain notable parallels...
...seeking jobs again. In addition, productivity is rising fast, partly as a delayed result of cost-cutting programs started by companies during the 1970 recession. Basically, that development is good, but it reduces employers' hiring needs. There is also an involved argument that joblessness is not helping to contain inflation as much as it once did, partly because the women, teen-agers and blacks who are most affected usually are not the unionized workers who push for and win big wage increases. In other words, so the argument runs, if the nation wishes to bring inflation down...
...frank still exerts appeal, but increasingly it has found succulent rivals in every U.S. city. McDonald's burgers (which are expressly forbidden by the franchiser to contain "hearts, lungs, tripe, suet, flavor boosters, preservatives, protein additives, fillers or cereals") have long passed the 6 billion mark in sales. The Near East may never solve its tensions, but American Arabs and Jews agree upon the merits of the felafel - Arabian bread stuffed with beans, salad, pickle, ol ives and sesame sauce. The gyro, a Greek concoction of lamb, tomato and onion, has pre-empted the frankfurter's place...
...most fatuous statement. Landau writes that in the early nineteenth century, "the movements for popular sovereignty and self-determination had not yet reared their threatening heads." But of course, without such movements, there would have been no Metternich as we know him. The Austrian diplomat was fighting to contain just those "movements for popular sovereignty and self-determination" which the French Revolution had ignited. And interestingly enough. Metternich fought so hard because he knew that his own country, the polyethnic Austrian Empire, could not survive if legitimate monarchy was defeated and national self-determination...